Whey, condensed, dried, evaporated, and powdered, manufacturing · Wisconsin

Foremost Farms - Sparta

Sparta, WI · ~44 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Foremost Farms - Sparta runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Whey, condensed, dried, evaporated, and powdered, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Foremost Farms - Sparta: 3.5 TCR = 107% of Whey, condensed, dried, evaporated, and powdered, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Foremost Farms - Sparta safety composite

Foremost Farms - Sparta scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Foremost Farms - Sparta: 5.0 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.64× in 2020

Foremost Farms - Sparta's TCR rose 1.8 from 5.0 in 2017 to 6.8 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311514 · Sparta, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 107% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #22/39
  • PHOTO Rich Products Niles
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rich Products Niles (0.0 TCR gap)

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Foremost Farms - Sparta in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Foremost Farms - Sparta averages 3.5 TCR (107% of the Whey, condensed, dried, evaporated, and powdered, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Foremost Farms - Sparta TCR series: 2017=5 · 2018=0 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=6.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Foremost Farms - Sparta falls in its industry

185 Whey, condensed, dried, evapor establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 39 Whey, condensed, dried, evapor employers in Wisconsin.

Foremost Farms - Sparta (44 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 3.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Foremost Farms - Sparta
Foremost Farms - Sparta (44 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Foremost Farms - Sparta has fewer employees than the Whey, condensed, dried, evaporated, and median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2020 6.8 2.3 3 0 0
2019 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 5.0 5.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311514 · WI · Sparta

185 Whey, condensed, dried, evaporated, and powdered, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 44 employers in Sparta, WI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Rich Products Niles 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milk Specialties Global Mountain Lake 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cosmax NBT USA Inc Miller Park 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bruce, WI 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Crave Brothers Farm 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holsum Elm Dairy 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milwaukee South Shore 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE ARC Contracting of Wisconsin Inc 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sparta Area School District 587 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mathews Archery, Inc 345 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern Engraving Corporation 321 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plant Four 307 FTE
NAT-TCR Rwks Transit East Side Access 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Meramec Instrument Transformer Co./Hubbell Power Systems 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Overhead Door Corp PA Division 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Yushiro Manufacturing America, Inc 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE First Transit-55616-University of Chicago 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greensboro Jamestown 8W 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marietta, OH, USA 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bike Boat & Ski 44 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.